Question

I’m a python newbie, I want to parse all the extended attributes of a file and perform some operation if it matches a particular pattern.
For Ex. I have to search for attributes of the pattern user.thing* like user.thing1 user.thing2 etc. and I have to perform some operations based on the matching.
In C I can do a listxattr and if the a particular key has the pattern I wish for I can do a getxattr on the same.
How to accomplish the same in python.

Answer 1

You use the xattr package.

$ easy_install xattr
$ python
>>> import xattr
>>> dict(xattr.xattr('.'))
{}